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Article: DUELING DATA Citing newer studies, some doubt PCBs cause cancer in humans
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- September 29, 1997
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PITTSFIELD -- For now, radiation treatment has beaten back the
cancer that once threatened Stephen Trepania's life. But every day
he worries the lymphoma may return, and like many of his colleagues
who once worked at the General Electric Co. plant in Pittsfield, he
wonders if his cancer was a result of his exposure to PCBs at work.
"I just don't know," said Trepania, 52. "So many people are sick,
something's got to be related somewhere."
But whether that somewhere has any connection to the banned family
of chemicals called polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, is a hotly
debated question.
GE used PCBs for decades making a variety of electrical components
here, but the evidence is ...